Create a Forecast —Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own Server ID in order to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other server id, you will compromise your exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated to your own server id.

Basic Data Setup

Defining Schedule

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up general server data for your server ID.

Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setups
Demand Plan Server

  1. Set up a schedule for your server ID.
  2. Start the Demand Planning Server.

Wait until the Demand Plan Server write back window states ideal, this indicates that all forecast parts are updated to the data base and ready for MS / MRP.

 

General exercise for Defining a Schedule

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to manually start the process of creating a new forecast using the Demand Planning Server and making this forecast available for MS/MRP. 

Windows:
Demand Plan Server
Exported Forecasts

Creating Forecast

  1. Double-click the Demand Plan icon in the lower right corner of the screen. The Demand Plan Server window appears.
  2. On the System menu, click Create Forecast to start the create forecast process. 
  3. On the System menu, click Lock Server. The server is now locked for update.
  4. To verify that new forecasts have been made available for IFS Applications, open the Exported Forecasts window. Query for your site. In the Last Changed field, check the date and time for the last change of the forecast.